On my old Duron rig my CPU cooler wasn't being recognised and the pc wouldn't run without one being recognised so i had to plug the cooler into a case fan pin socket thing and run a small pentium 2 fan above my hard drive. Thats all i had i guess i could have run a case fan but back then it wasn't a big deal.

The pc recognised the Intel fan basically that there was a fan running and the cooler kept it cool as hell and the fan kept the hard drive cool. I still got that rig so i might run it again but due to cost its a bit off at the moment, i need a graphics card a psu and a new case old ones bashed.

I don't like to call them Ghetto mods, I like to call them Elite mods because people used their brain to make something themselves.

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I agree with you 100% I prefere DIY lol its less insulting really but i didnt make the phrase up its just somthing thats stuck Im from the uk so we dont really have ghettos we just have rough estates lol and we use the term DIY the ghetto thing is from the U.S side.

thats true. My best friend made a fan switch out of the Zalman switch for the Vantec CPU fan I got.. I didn't want to hear 132cfm going all the time! lol open up the case, and its hidden behind a cable.. sweet and easy!

got a couple more in mine
p3 cooler on the voltage circuits, with a fan controller from an old psu, temp controlled
60mm fan ontop of gfx
edit - the zalman nb cooler has been in a vice to stop it getting in the way of gfx card
emi plate on soundcard from old hd

The acrylic window fell off my side panel, so now it's taped to the drive bays. I also added a heatsink and fan to an very, very old VGA card, I found a pinout of a PCI connector and soldered the fan directly yo the GND and +12V pins. I cut up an old NB cooler to cool the MOSFETs on my Sapphire X1950 PRO. Right now I'm putting together a RAM cooler made from cheap heatspreaders and 2 NB fans, it'll be controlled through a potentiometer. I cut a big hole in the front of my case to help my 120mm intake fan push more air.

My most ghetto mod has got to be how I ripped the whole plastic front off my old case and pointed a floor fan into it because the computer was overheating. There's probably more but I can't remember.

got a couple more in mine
p3 cooler on the voltage circuits, with a fan controller from an old psu, temp controlled
60mm fan ontop of gfx
edit - the zalman nb cooler has been in a vice to stop it getting in the way of gfx cardemi plate on soundcard from old hd

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awesome EMI shield! Never thought of that! Now if I can just find one in a nickel/copper alloy . . .

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thought I'd throw mine in as well - dual 60mm intake duct that fits into two 5.25" bays; made from scapled casing of a couple of old CD-ROM drives and 2 Evercool 60mm fans:

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Newest ghetto mod, my mobo has an 8-pin power connector. Now you can use a 4-pin, but since I'm overclocking I figured it would be safer to use 8. So I bought a molex to 4-pin adaptor, shaved down the male ends to fit the socket and shaved down the sides of both 4-pin connectors to fit together. Looks like crap but it works.

I'm also planning of making a shroud or something to direct the extra air coming out of the side of my Xigmatek CPU cooler to cool my RAM.

Newest ghetto mod, my mobo has an 8-pin power connector. Now you can use a 4-pin, but since I'm overclocking I figured it would be safer to use 8. So I bought a molex to 4-pin adaptor, shaved down the male ends to fit the socket and shaved down the sides of both 4-pin connectors to fit together. Looks like crap but it works.

I'm also planning of making a shroud or something to direct the extra air coming out of the side of my Xigmatek CPU cooler to cool my RAM.